scraggy
Example Sentences
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Clambering up a scraggy path on a hill looking over the foggy city of Lima, Justina Flores is trying to figure out what she's going to cook today.
From BBC • Aug. 16, 2022
Alberto Giacometti’s sculptures of tall, elegantly scraggy humans loom large in people’s minds.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2022
Unaccountably angry and smug, the scraggy Smithers is Brutus’s cynical, conniving cohort.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2017
Trim the chicken thighs of scraggy bits of skin.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2016
The old people in the bed all leaned forward, craning their scraggy necks.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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